{"id":11469,"date":"2021-06-22T13:26:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11469"},"modified":"2021-06-26T13:30:54","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T20:30:54","slug":"ministry-of-psychology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2021\/06\/22\/ministry-of-psychology\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Psychology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/brick-brick\/202009\/the-universal-fundamentals-al-jourgensen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Psychology Today<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Universal Fundamentals of Al Jourgensen<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A musician finds connection in creativity.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/contributors\/michael-friedman-phd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Michael Friedman Ph.D.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod (Official Music Video) | Warner Vault\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GXCh9OhDiCI?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1969, the late\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/how-jim-morrison-predicted-edm-to-rolling-stone-in-1969-235437\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jim Morrison<\/a>\u00a0of the Doors had a prophecy\u2014the birth of electronic music. He imagined that \u201csome brilliant kid will come along \u2026 a lone artist with lots of tapes \u2026 a keyboard with the complexity and richness of a whole orchestra.\u201d What was critical about Morrison\u2019s prophecy was his excitement about this new possibility. He did not seem afraid of electronics, but rather open to what humans could do with machines to amplify the creative and emotional experience of music.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of those brilliant kids who came along was Al Jourgensen of the industrial band Ministry. Industrial music is an aggressive fusion of electronic music and rock that employs harsh and provocative sounds created by any number of machines\u2014from synthesizers to tools found in factories. Anything goes\u2014nothing is off-limits. And Jourgensen has embraced Morrison\u2019s enthusiasm for the possibility that machines can bring to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/basics\/creativity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">creativity<\/a>\u00a0over the past four decades, propelling Ministry to be considered one of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.revolvermag.com\/music\/fan-poll-top-5-industrial-bands-all-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">greatest<\/a>\u00a0industrial bands of all time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in talking with Jourgensen for the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hardcorehumanism.com\/al-jourgensen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Hardcore Humanism Podcast<\/em><\/a>, the art is only an extension of his deeper\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/basics\/philosophy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">philosophy<\/a>\u00a0on human nature\u2014what he describes as the \u201cuniversal fundamental.\u201d The universal fundamental is that all beings throughout the universe are connected to one another. And the way we stay connected and communicate is by perpetually engaging in a creative and dynamic process by which we take in the information the world gives us, interpret it in our own unique way, and send it back out into the world. Jourgensen\u2019s embrace of the range of sounds that make up industrial music in general and Ministry\u2019s music, in particular, is his way of staying connected to the \u201cuniversal fundamental.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the core of Jourgensen\u2019s approach to the world and his art is open-mindedness. Like Morrison, Jorgensen did not&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/basics\/fear\">fear<\/a>&nbsp;but rather reveled in the new opportunities provided by industrial music. Intricate to this perspective is that all sounds are fair game for music\u2014not just the ones made by traditional instruments. If we want to be truly aware of and connected to human experience and the world around us, we need to listen to and utilize all available sounds in art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBasically, since the 19th century, we&#8217;ve been living in an industrial age. All of a sudden, there&#8217;s been all these new noises that had never been heard before on this planet. You know, cotton gin, steam presses, printing presses, all these large machineries that make these audible sounds that have never been heard,\u201d Jourgensen told me. \u201cWe&#8217;re familiar with these sounds. It took a long time to get used to these, and nobody thought of them as music &#8230; but now you can go on online anywhere and get plugins or apps of pretty much every sound that&#8217;s ever been made.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/brick-brick\/202009\/the-universal-fundamentals-al-jourgensen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at PT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Psychology Today The Universal Fundamentals of Al Jourgensen A musician finds connection in creativity. by Michael Friedman Ph.D. In 1969, the late\u00a0Jim Morrison\u00a0of the Doors had a prophecy\u2014the birth of electronic music. He imagined that \u201csome brilliant kid will come along \u2026 a lone artist with lots of tapes \u2026 a keyboard with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}